Top 100 Is Rarely Quotes
#1. A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty. No, it is not possible that minds degraded by a multitude of futile concerns would ever raise themselves to anything great. Even when they had the strength for that, the courage would be missing.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#2. Leadership is rarely about what we want, son. I think too few among the Alethi elite realize that fact.
Brandon Sanderson
#3. A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out what a novel is about, and the job becomes one of understanding and deepening or sharpening what is already written. That is finding the theme.
Diane Johnson
#4. Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.
Ezra Taft Benson
#6. The reason laziness is rarely pushed as a lifestyle option is down to one simple reason: money. There are fortunes to be made out of active lifestyles. Gyms charge fees. But no one is going to make money out of sleep. It is free.
Tom Hodgkinson
#7. I think a lot about the private emotions of black people - what we feel and yet is rarely publicly expressed.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#8. Ability to persevere begins with you, the individual. However, change is rarely easy. In fact, sometimes it is downright formidable.
Paul G. Stoltz
#9. Reality is rarely what we imagine. Great and noble things do not always happen for great and noble reasons.
Tracy Thompson
#10. There's no shame in being romantic at all. I think people want to feel that sense of romance, which is rarely even attempted anymore.
Colin Trevorrow
#11. The leader ... is rarely the brightest person in the group. Rather they have extraordinary taste, which makes them more curators than creators. They are appreciators of talent and nurturers of talent and they have the ability to recognize valuable ideas.
Warren G. Bennis
#12. The bass is the link between harmony and rhythm. It is the foundation of a band. It is what all the other instruments stand upon, but it is rarely recognized as that.
Victor Wooten
#13. Although not always simultaneous in taking effect, nor necessarily at all equal in voltage, the process of love is rarely unilateral. When the moment comes, a secret attachment is often returned with interest. Some know this by instinct; others learn in a hard school.
Anthony Powell
#14. Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound,
Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
Alexander Pope
#15. A formal and orderly conception of the whole is rarely present, perhaps even rarely possible, except to a few men of exceptional genius.
Chester Barnard
#16. Alek said, "Do you think I'm being a fool?"
"I think you're trying to do something good. But doing good is rarely easy, and no weapon has ever stopped a war.
Scott Westerfeld
#17. In 1975, the collapse of a cascade of Chinese dams during a flood killed a hundred and seventy-one thousand people, but the event is rarely discussed, and the names of the victims are largely unrecorded today.
Evan Osnos
#18. Rumor is rarely more interesting than fact, but it is always more readily available.
Stephen L. Carter
#20. Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.
Benjamin Spock
#21. Officially, of course, we're all to be treated the same, yes? But that is rarely put into practice.
Veronica Roth
#22. He never spoke of that night again, not to your mother, not to anyone else. He was ashamed for her, for Mickey, for himself. In the hospital, he stopped speaking altogether. Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge. His thoughts still haunted him.'
~pg 139
Mitch Albom
#23. It has always been an irony to me that the 'religious right' has come under so much attack for being involved in politics when the black community has been doing it for hundreds of years. The Reverend Jesse Jackson is rarely, if ever, attacked for his involvement in politics.
Kay Coles James
#24. What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
Tony Robbins
#25. Convincing a leader of the value of front-line ideas alone is rarely enough for that person to overcome years of entrenched bad habits and to change his management style.
Dean M. Schroeder
#26. The most enthusiastic man in a cause is rarely chosen as the leader.
Arthur Helps
#27. One of the things that people complain about is loneliness, disconnectedness. If you live in a society where your life is rarely threatened and most of your relationships are more on an economic exchange basis, then this could leave people feeling less connected.
Steven Pinker
#28. A cup concealed in the dress is rarely honestly carried.
Horace
#30. Progress is rarely a straight line. There are always bumps in the road, but you can make the choice to keep looking ahead.
Kara Goucher
#31. The discovery of heroes is rarely linear or obvious. They usually sneak up on you.
Nina Easton
#32. It is rarely a lack of love that forces two hearts apart, but other obstacles.
Robin LaFevers
#33. Eloquence may be found in conversations and in all kinds of writings; it is rarely found when looked for, and sometimes discovered where it is least expected.
Jean De La Bruyere
#34. The fact that German anti-Semitism and anticapitalism spring from the same root is of great importance for the understanding of what has happened there, but this is rarely grasped by foreign observers.
Friedrich Hayek
#35. If you have ever opened a can of worms, boxed yourself into a corner, ended up in hot water, or found yourself in a pretty pickle, you already know that life is rarely (if ever) just a bowl of cherries.
Maryrose Wood
#36. But your good opinion is rarely bestowed and therefore more worth the earning.
Jane Austen
#37. Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period; the search after it is rarely rewarded by the discovery, but there is an admirable substitute for it ... a contented spirit.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
#38. Victims recite problems. Leaders develop solutions. That might seem like common sense, but common sense is rarely common practice.
Robin S. Sharma
#39. The erotic is not about nudity and nudity is rarely erotic. The erotic is subtle, a feeling, a gesture, a mood, a story frozen in the moment that holds you breathless waiting for the next moment. Understand this, and you understand the erotic.
Chloe Thurlow
#40. The goals of American Christianity are often a nice marriage, children who don't swear, and good church attendance. Taking the words of Christ literally and seriously is rarely considered.
Francis Chan
#41. A fall from such a height is rarely straight downwards.
Victor Hugo
#43. I am a firm believer that there is rarely a straight line between good and evil.
Nicholas Denmon
#44. Faith is rarely where your head is at. Nor is it where your heart is at. Faith is where your ass is at!
Daniel Berrigan
#45. From a child's point of view, there is rarely a great time for parents to separate, even if there has been a lot of commotion and fighting.
Susie Orbach
#46. Discipline is rarely enjoyable, but almost always profitable.
Darrin Patrick
#47. The adolescent phase is rarely attractive, whatever the species.
Ransom Riggs
#48. Whether keenly striking or laughably awful, contemporary art is rarely unentertaining.
David Levithan
#49. An easy life is rarely meaningful and a meaningful life rarely easy.
Oliver North
#50. There is rarely a creative man who does not have to pay a high price for the divine spark of his great gifts ... the human element is frequently bled for the benefit of the creative element.
Carl Jung
#51. True love is born of time and trials, and it is rarely caught up in feelings.
K. B. Hoyle
#53. Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.
Oscar Wilde
#54. Certainty is rarely if ever possible and we increase the likelihood of getting things wrong if we succumb to the hunger for it.
Peter Elbow
#55. You think you want to know the secrets of the universe. You think you want to see the way things all fit together. You believe in your heart of hearts that enlightenment will save the world and set you free.
Maybe it will.
But the path to enlightenment is rarely a pleasant one.
Neal Shusterman
#56. Quite a lot of British women stop working when they have children, and that is rarely the case in Denmark. We have a very flat, structured way of approaching everything. Nobody's the boss. In a sense, we're all equal.
Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
#57. The truth is rarely pure and never simple. - Oscar Wilde
Greg Iles
#59. The number one goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintain their self-esteem. Resolving conflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment and appreciation of differences.
Thomas Crum
#60. Our governments have only occasionally recognized the need of land and people to be protected against economic violence. It is true that economic violence is not always as swift, and is rarely as bloody, as the violence of war, but it can be devastating nonetheless.
Wendell Berry
#61. The public's imagination is rarely captured by bland temperance.
Larry J. Sabato
#62. Love is rarely flawless," Carter pointed out. "Humans delude themselves by thinking it has to be. It is the imperfection that makes love perfect.
Richelle Mead
#63. It is rarely the quick fix that goes the farthest. So don't get tempted by political cycles and the lure of electoral wins.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
#64. There can be no doubt that this possessive clinging to things is one of the most harmful habits in the life. Because it is so natural it is rarely recognized for the evil that it is; but its outworkings are tragic.
A.W. Tozer
#65. Avarice is rarely the vice of youth ...
Sophia Lee
#66. The man who is ... physically able to handle pig-iron and is sufficiently ... stupid to choose this for his occupation is rarely able to comprehend the science of handling pig-iron
Frederick Winslow Taylor
#67. A mouse when caught in a perilous situation reacts aptly because it has such encounters on a daily basis whereas a lion, which is rarely caught in such situations, is often late in its reaction.
Ashish Jaiswal
#68. Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.
Eric Hoffer
#69. A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#70. The form in which thoughts occur to a writer is rarely the same as the form in which they can be absorbed by a reader. The advice in this and other stylebooks is not so much on how to write as on how to revise.
Steven Pinker
#71. Negative thinking patterns can be immensely deceptive and persuasive, and change is rarely easy. But with patience and persistence, I believe that nearly all individuals suffering from depression can improve and experience a sense of joy and self-esteem once again.
David D. Burns
#72. Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.
Oscar Wilde
#73. Birth mothers choose life, and a family, for their child. But this choice is rarely celebrated. Women routinely face family, friends and even health-care providers who think that adoption equals abandonment, according to researchers and conversations with birth mothers.
Nina Easton
#74. The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
Anita Brookner
#75. Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification.
Carol Tavris
#76. Do you have the talent?' is rarely the question. 'Do you have the guts to finish?' is the real question.
Orrin Woodward
#77. I've never been terribly interested in why people give, because their motivation is rarely what it seems to be, and it's almost never true altruism.
Donald J. Trump
#78. Going round and around inside a dryer can be fatal, whereas pasta is rarely fatal. Unless Isabelle makes it.
Cassandra Clare
#80. I admire you. You have learned to rise with the wind, rather than fight it. Too many people struggle to become what is expected of them, when, as we both know, what is expected of us is rarely what we desire.
C.W. Gortner
#81. Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible.
Samuel Johnson
#82. The problem with being young and in a singular place is that one assumes that one will inevitably find oneself in an equally foreign and exotic location at some later point in life. But this is rarely true.
Hanya Yanagihara
#83. Human nature is rarely so amusing as when trying to get a house off its hands. Women at this task can be untruthful enough, but their untruth lacks the infusion of candor which a skillful male liar can introduce.
E. V. Lucas
#84. The truth is rarely as dreadful or as terrifying as what one imagines.
Hallie Ephron
#86. Giggling is a plague on the nervous system that I believe is hardwired into some people's physiology and seems to be a reaction to tremendous nerves, fatigue, or self-consciousness. It is rarely a welcome occurrence to the giggler and can feel like going over Niagara Falls without a barrel
Linda Ronstadt
#88. An new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly it wheezes and tips over.
Marge Piercy
#92. Like a church bell, a coffin, and a vat of melted chocolate, a supply closet is rarely a comfortable place to hide.
Lemony Snicket
#93. The simplicity which is in Christ is rarely found among us. In its stead are programs, methods, organizations and a world of nervous activity activities which occupy time and attention but can never satisfy the longing of the heart.
A.W. Tozer
#94. The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.
Dallas Willard
#95. Memoirs are - memory is - rarely 100 percent accurate. Any autobiography is a construct, ballpark, even unnatural. Private diaries, too, can be unreliable - a detail that matters only if the diary is read.
Darin Strauss
#96. It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness,
Thomas Hardy
#97. The truth is, rarely can a response make something better - what makes something better is connection.
Brene Brown
#98. Price is rarely the most important thing. A cheap product might sell some units. Somebody gets it home and they feel great when they pay the money, but then they get it home and use it and the joy is gone.
Tim Cook
#99. They are two brothers whose language to each other is mostly the farm, and the weather, or sport, but it is rarely a language that talks of the past or of what they think and feel. They sit, like stones.
Susan Fletcher
#100. Randomness and lack of warning are the attributes of human violence we fear most, but you now know that human violence is rarely random and rarely without warning.
Gavin De Becker
